Richard Griffiths

The knock against Neil Simon in the early days was that he cared more about his punch lines than his characters. "The Sunshine Boys," his 1972 play about the rocky reunion of a pair of elderly vaudeville comics, attempts to turn this playwriting vice into a virtue. Wisecracks come as naturally to these shambling funnymen as drawing breath. And though arthritis has set in, they still relate to the world as if it were the setup for a slapstick routine — locks refuse to open, a TV (unplugged) goes mysteriously on the fritz. The jokes land with clockwork regularity, but "The Sunshine Boys" is only intermittently successful as a dramatic comedy. The play, in...

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